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Allogeneic and autogolous stem cell therapy combined with physical rehabilitation: A case report on a chronically injured man with quadriplegia

Daniel Leonard in Panama This is a research paper written by Rebecca Johnston, Daniel Leonard's sister. She recently graduated from a Physical Therapy degree program, and wrote her Capstone paper about Daniel's stem cell therapy treatment in Panama. Daniel is presented anonymously in the paper, but Rebecca and Daniel have given their permission for [...]

jaytest2013-02-11T21:00:59+00:00February 11th, 2013|Adult Stem Cells, Bone Marrow, Cord Blood Stem Cells, News, Patient Stories, Spinal Cord Injury, Spinal Cord Injury, Spinal Cord Injury, Stem Cell Research, Stem Cell Therapy, Stem Cells|

Scientists look to stem cells to mend broken hearts

Cardiac medicine has traditionally been associated with innovative procedures that sometimes where considered heretical to the present day dogma. For example, the first heart transplant, the use of the balloon catheter, the introduction of thrombolytics, all met substantial resistance from the “establishment” in their time. It appears that the next revolution in cardiac medicine is [...]

jaytest2011-02-01T21:02:22+00:00February 1st, 2011|Adult Stem Cells, Bone Marrow, Heart Disease, News, Stem Cell Research|

Limb Transplants Facilitated by Bone Marrow Stem Cells

Kuo et al. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2011 Feb;127(2):569-79. Composite tissue allografts are usually transplants of anatomical structures that contain multiple types of tissues. We have seen numerous high-profile examples of human composite tissue allografts such as whole hands, faces, and arms. While advancement of surgical techniques have made such transplants a reality, immunologically-mediated rejection remains [...]

jaytest2011-02-01T20:59:47+00:00February 1st, 2011|Adult Stem Cells, Bone Marrow, News, Stem Cell Research|

New Cell That Keeps Stem Cells in the Bone Marrow

Chow et al. J Exp Med. When a bone marrow transplant is performed, the bone marrow cells of the donor are injected intravenously into the recipient and somehow find their way back into the bone marrow of the recipient. The mechanism known to be responsible for this has always been cited as being SDF-1 (also [...]

jaytest2011-01-31T21:04:08+00:00January 31st, 2011|Adult Stem Cells, Bone Marrow, News|

Study Shows Patient’s Own Stem Cells Help Stroke Recovery: 16 Treated Patients Improve in Comparison to 36 Controls

Lee et al Stem Cells 28:1099 Stroke is caused by blocked circulation to parts of the brain usually as a result of a blood clot. Outcomes of stroke are generally proportional to the length of time the circulation was blocked and to the amount of brain tissue injury and death. Although the introduction of “clot [...]

jaytest2011-01-01T21:15:45+00:00January 1st, 2011|Adult Stem Cells, Bone Marrow, News, Stem Cell Research, Stroke|

Differences between Stem Cells from the Placenta and Bone Marrow

Fazekasova et al. Mesenchymal stem cells were historically isolated from the bone marrow as an adherent stem cell population capable of “orthodox” differentiation, meaning that they have ability to become bone, cartilage, and fat. Further research revealed that these cells are also capable of “non-orthodox” differentiation, that is, becoming neurons, hepatocytes, insulin producing cells, and [...]

jaytest2010-12-31T21:19:03+00:00December 31st, 2010|Adult Stem Cells, Bone Marrow, Endometrial Stem Cells, News, Stem Cell Research|

Enhancing Efficacy of Bone Marrow Transplant

Huang et al. Blood. [Epub ahead of print] Bone marrow transplantation has cured many patients of hematological diseases such as leukemias and lymphomas. Additionally, bone marrow transplantation is becoming used more and more in treatment of autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis. Unfortunately, there are still numerous limitations to this procedure. [...]

jaytest2010-12-29T21:23:31+00:00December 29th, 2010|Adult Stem Cells, Bone Marrow, News, Stem Cell Research|

Scientists identify and isolate adult mammary stem cells in mice

(Times of India) It is well-known that stem cells exist in adult tissues. The most commonly known stem cell, the bone marrow stem cell, plays the physiological role of generating billions of blood cells per hour while being capable of making copies of itself. Subsequent to the discovery of the bone marrow stem cell in [...]

jaytest2010-09-01T15:50:49+00:00September 1st, 2010|Adult Stem Cells, Bone Marrow, News, Stem Cell Research|